🇷🇺Nikolai Karlovich Medtner ： Forgotten Melodies Book 3 Symphonic Dance Op.40-2

This Symphonic Dance greatly expands the piano’s sonority, creating an orchestral scale through weighty chords and richly polyphonic writing. Strong thematic passages alternate with fluid, finely detailed motion, and the changing character of each section is one of the work’s main attractions. It is important to clarify the role of every voice and keep the inner parts from being obscured by the dense chords. A bold sense of forward motion should be maintained while carefully shaping the rhythms and accents; judicious pedaling according to the density of the sonority helps bring out the work’s three-dimensional character.